LDRship Podcast - Episode 16: What are Rights and Who Gives Them to Us?

Episode 16 - What are Rights and Who Gives Them to Us?: Wherein we discuss the nature of Rights and whether they are given to us by our creator or by our government.00:00:11 - Introductions

00:01:54 - What the Founding Fathers wrote about our rights

00:03:57 - What's the precedence of our inalienable rights

00:05:44 - The balance between life and liberty during COVID

00:08:41 - No right is absolute

00:10:40 - How many people's liberties is worth one life?

00:13:38 - Your rights shouldn't impose on mine

00:16:02 - Free market principles

00:18:20 - It's not a free market...

00:20:38 - We as a society trust government to place restrictions on our rights?

00:22:20 - We naturally have rights; the government doesn't give them to us

00:24:30 - What is liberty?

00:27:52 - Restrictions are placed on liberty because the government knows better...

00:29:53 - The government is not my parent

00:33:31 - These restrictions are in place to make crime harder

00:37:43 - Government and laws are a necessary evil in large societies

00:39:17 - We're not a perfect society but we strive to be better

00:41:44 - We wish more people would be engaged with their government

00:43:54 - Big government, King Trump, or the Oligarchy?

00:49:29 - The Founding Fathers didn't foresee the other branches of government acquiescing to the Chief Executive

00:53:50 - We're not good examples of the extremes of our parties

00:55:50 - Too many old people hanging around in government

01:01:18 - If you don't know your rights, how do you know they're being violated?

01:02:31 - We need more Civics classes

01:07:21 - In summary...

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